ELKHART — A final status conference and a plea bargain deadline along with new trial dates have been set in the case against Kevin Bronson and Mark Soto. A telephonic status conference was held today Friday, March 10, in the Elkhart Superior 1 courtroom.

WARSAW — A last minute motion, filed by the defense, 28 minutes prior to the start of the seven-day jury trial of C. Aaron Rovenstine has caused the trial to be continued. A new trial date will be set following a procedural ruling by the Indiana Supreme Court. According to state statute, a special prosecutor …read more.

ELKHART — Arguments regarding a defense motion to exclude are still pending in the case against Kosciusko County Sheriff C. Aaron Rovenstine. Attorneys for both sides participated in a telephonic status conference Jan. 4 with Special Judge Evan S. Roberts, Elkhart Superior Court 1. During the telephonic status conference matters pertaining to the defense motion …read more.

ELKHART — A plea agreement could be reached in the case against Kevin Bronson. The final date to enter a plea agreement and the date of the trial has been reset by the court.

ELKHART — Special Judge Evan Roberts, Elkhart Superior Court 1, has reset the jury trial for Mark Soto to April 11-13 and continuing April 18-21 in Kosciusko Circuit Court. The judge will not “entertain any additional continuance motions” in the case.

WARSAW — Special Judge Evan Roberts has ruled the trial of C. Aaron Rovenstine and selection of jurors will all be in Kosciusko County.

WARSAW — Can an impartial jury be selected within Kosciusko County to hear the case against its Sheriff C. Aaron Rovenstine?

KOSCIUSKO COUNTY — Motions to continue a jury trial, vacate a hearing and allow a defendant to be absent from a status conference have been filed by counsel for Mark H. Soto and Kevin Bronson, both indicted on numerous charges by a grand jury last year. Special Judge Evan S. Roberts, Elkhart Superior Court 1, …read more.

ELKHART — Can an impartial jury in Kosciusko Sheriff Aaron Rovenstine’s home county be found? Elkhart Superior Court Judge Evan S. Roberts, special judge assigned in the criminal case against Rovenstine, has a solution to find out now instead of opening day of the trial. A test jury selection will take place in Kosciusko County …read more.

ELKHART — Transcripts of testimony during the grand jury, which indicted Kosciusko County Sheriff C. Aaron Rovenstine, of those individuals the state will or may call during the trial, were addressed in a telephonic conference shortly after noon today, Wednesday, Aug. 24.

ELKHART — Elkhart Superior Court Judge Evan S. Roberts, has denied the state’s motions to change venue and to draw a jury pool from one or more contiguous counties in the trial of C. Aaron Rovenstine on indictment of 10 counts. The trial is still set to begin Feb. 7 for six days. That ruling …read more.

KOSCIUSKO COUNTY — Elkhart Superior 1 Judge Evan S. Roberts, special judge in the court proceedings of C. Aaron Rovenstine, Mark H. Soto and Kevin Bronson, has set a status conference for all three defendants in the courtroom of Elkhart Superior Court 1, 315 S. Second St., Elkhart. The judge declined to approve the proposed …read more.